Nevada County picayune., 1887-11-23

ful form. When he tragicaly urg- ed the wrougbt-up mob, standing in plain view of police station, to "throttle and k!ll the law tie disguised officers in the crowd saw the necessity of
 PROMPT ACTION
 and word was passed to their com mander. Captain Bontield, fol. lowing the plain directions of the State law covering exactly such cases, gave orders 10 have the meeting dispersed Seven com panies of police, l15 men. led by himself and Capt. Ward, marched III platoons, extending from curb to curb, the short distance or Dis plains street from the station to the speakers wagon. As the po- lice approached, Fielden shouted to the crowd: Her. comes the bloodhonnds. Ton do your duty and I'll do minen Capt. Ward, in a loud voice called out: "In the name of the people of the State of Illinois. l command you to peace. fully disperSe. Fielden step. ping down from the wagon, gave tue "ruhe" exclamation: "We are peaceable." Instantly the bomb was thrown. the first in free Amer ica.
 \ sputtvrlng spark in the air. on the ground a binding burst- that was all. Blackness was ever i ywhere. The pagaiy cracking ot the pistol shots out from the mob jamined sidewalks, d few tali forms Ia the street rapi,ily chasing to gether, the flash and smoke of volley from them and ihe rear i platoons. then the din became hid eous with the groanlng of man gled men, and the yells oi rage and lear in the wild scramble for escape.
 THE SEQUEL
 iias stretci,cd out to day. Fore most It includes tho death of sey eli bomb slain police, and the slow recovery ot sixty officers woun- ded. The immediate arrest of all the cilief naIelactors; barring Par sons alone, was followed by thcir prompt arraignment for murder June 22, before Judge Joseph l.. Gray, who proved himself as able as he Is worthy. The escape of Schnaubelt, the actual ,i,ruwrr of the bomb, who was set free before his importance had been suspect. ed, was a blundcr unly eaualed by the mistane on the opposite side when Parsons made his seusation- al voluntary surrender.
 TEE FIRST DAY IN COURT { Two months precisely was the length of the trial, expressing from day to day the attention of the civilized world. Whatever legal talent could do was exhausted by the defense under the dir .ctien af Captain Black. while States li- torney Grinuell directed tue pros ecution with a skill reaching ev. cry point.
 Death sentences for all but Nee. be, and the penitentlary tpr him; the tour Ot the American cities by European socialists, Liebknecht, the German parlimentarian, and Aveling. the English scientist, in an attempt to give prestige to the condemned and gaiu sympathy for them: the effort to make senti. meutaism have an effect through the ostentatious love-making 0t Spies and Miss Van Zandt and their subsequent proxy marriage all of these followed each other in rapid succession. Next came the introduction of the anarchists cause as an issue issue in Chicago politics, resulting in the crushing
 DEFEAT OF THE RED FLAG
 advocates. Abraham Lincoln's ex-partner, Leonard Swett, pre- senting the defendants case 'D the supreme. court of Illinois crea- ted new sensation. hut his ei- fortsi were no more effective than subsequent ones for the reds" by Gen. Butler. Roger Fry or and J. Randolph Packer before the highest court of the nation. George Francis Train and his queer exploits were in singular contrast with the grave legal pro- ceedngS and the bitter struggles in the trades unions.
 The splits caused by friends of the condemned m two 0fthe great. est brotherhoods m the world ! Knights Of Labor and Tnrrers- have had far-reaching effects, but the attention of people at large has .